PROTECT IP Act

Is the tide shifting on a controversial bill that would give the government and copyright holders broad new powers to stop online piracy?

Over the weekend, the White House signaled that it has strong reservations about the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which is pending in theU.S. House of Representatives. On Tuesday, a congressman from Connecticut said Congress ought to scrap the bill and start from scratch.

On Wednesday, for the entire 24-hour period, the popular user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia was to shut down its English-language site in protest, and Google was planning to display an anti-SOPA message on its website. A number of other sites, including...

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